WALKINGTON THOMAS The opticke glasse of humours Wherein

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[WALKINGTON, THOMAS.] The opticke glasse of humours . . . Wherein the foure complexions, sangume[sic], cholericke, phligmaticke, melancholicke, are succinctly painted. Engraved plate showing diagram of temperaments beneath views of Oxford and Cambridge (outer margin cropped minimally affecting image). [26], 168 pages, including etched additional title dated 1663. 12mo, modern blind-ruled tan calf in period style; contents browned, margins trimmed entering some sidenotes, scattered marginal dampstains, last page heavily soiled. London: G. Dawson for Edward Man, 1664

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Fourth edition of a 1607 treatise on the Galenic theory of 4 types of temperament, "lively, witty, and concerned at least as much to entertain as instruct" (ODNB), and a forerunner of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. Krivatsy 12582; Wing W459.